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a fistful of dollars

You’ve probably noticed the ‘10% off everything within our borders’ Christmas sale the States are having. When you combine that with the price difference between US and UK shops, it’s tempting to import stuff (although customs are trying hard to dissuade me ). Luckily there no duty on bytes (give them time) . So it’s [...]

things that make you go ‘bollocks’ (and/or ‘sweet’)

Had one of those weeks where stuff goes pop for no good reason. First eris, my FreeBSD IMAP/db/Rails/everything-important server screwed its disk (either it’s GEOM in RELENG_5 or the disk itself, but it crashes after an hours use). Since I’ve started looking at the really very teeny network appliance market lately, I decided now was [...]